JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung admitted that there was a capacity challenge for the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Treatment Plant (TPST) in the next few years.
Bantargebang has been the main focus of Jakarta's waste management, with the accumulated waste said to have reached tens of millions of tons. If there is no significant change in the processing system, the TPST in the Bekasi area is projected to no longer be able to accommodate the capital's waste.
Therefore, Pramono Anung said the government would carry out a waste-to-energy plant (PLTSa) development project as a key step to reduce the burden of waste generated in Jakarta.
"So for Bantargebang, because we will soon start the PLTSa, the Waste Power Plant in Bantargebang," said Pramono in Cilincing, North Jakarta, Tuesday, December 16.
Pramono admitted that Jakarta needed at least four PLTSa to solve the problem of Jakarta's increasingly piling garbage.
Responding to this condition, the Danantara Investment Management Agency (BPI) and the DKI Provincial Government are planning to build two PLTSa in Jakarta.
"According to the talks with Danantara at that time, with Mr. Rosan directly, there will be two waste power plants," he said.
Pramono hopes that the existence of PLTSa can gradually reduce the old waste pile, which is currently towering in Bantargebang. Currently, the stock of waste at the location is said to reach around 55 million tons.
"Hopefully, the 55 million tons that are now in stock at Bantargebang will gradually decrease. That's what we'll do," said Pramono.
For information, currently TPST Bantargebang is approaching the capacity limit. The mountain of garbage from Jakarta that continues to arrive every day makes the capacity of the area of more than 110 hectares increasingly thin.
TPST Bantargebang is estimated to only be able to survive for about six years in the future before it can no longer accept additional waste if the waste management pattern is not improved.
Currently, Bantargebang accommodates tens of millions of tons of accumulated waste that comes almost entirely from the capital. Every day, around 8,000 tons of Jakarta waste are dumped at the location. The burden makes the landfill zones increasingly crowded, while the space for expansion is increasingly limited, both in terms of land and environmental support.
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